Thread by @Tyler2ONeil

#ChristianPrivilege is trending because of this disgustingly bigoted article. playboy.com/read/the-gospe… In it, @C_Stroop claims that anyone who disagrees with her liberal stances is immoral. Specifically, if you don't value helping illegals over following immigration law. /1

@C_Stroop The thing is, people support immigration restrictions for various reasons, not because of some fundamentally racist strain in American Christianity. We welcome immigrants, but legal limits are important for the health of a pluralistic republic. /2

@C_Stroop The real problem with the article has nothing to do with her oversimplification of the immigration debate. It has to do with her lies about Christianity. Here's what she says about Christianity and Jesus: /3

@C_Stroop She says Christianity is fundamentally oppressive, that Jesus seems similar to a guy who led his followers into mass suicide, and that conservative Christianity is fundamentally racist. /4

@C_Stroop She presents an oversimplistic view of history — "EUROPEAN COLONIALISM IS EVIL" — that overlooks how Christianity ended abortion, created the first orphanages and hospitals, and cared for the sick when no one else would in Ancient Rome and onward. /5

@C_Stroop Her view also overlooks how Christianity encouraged science pjmedia.com/faith/2015/11/… and humility, making the lives of billions better. /6

@C_Stroop Yes, of course many Christians in history have committed evil acts, but they have also done great good — Hernan De Soto condemned the Spanish atrocities against Native Americans and laid the groundwork for international law. /7

@C_Stroop As for racism, Christianity is spreading fastest in Subsaharan Africa and South America. Some Christians twisted the Bible to defend slavery (yes twisted — read Philemon), but Christians also led the abolitionist movement. /8

@C_Stroop Fights for religious freedom have nothing to do with racism or #ChristianPrivilege, but rather in allowing people to live and let live in the confusing legal world after Obergefell, and Justice Kennedy supported such things IN THAT DECISION. /9

@C_Stroop So, when someone demonizes a faith, concocts a conspiracy theory about racism within it, advocates for #EmptyThePews, she demonstrates that concerns about #ChristianPrivilege are overblown. Yes, conservative Christians have holidays off. But we're routinely demonized as well. /10